Express News Service
PATNA: A video, that went viral on social media on Wednesday, reveals the 34-year-old Muslim youth from Bihar’s Samastipur district pleading with folded arms to spare him earlier than he was overwhelmed to loss of life.
Though the video would not present the faces of the individuals concerned, the offenders might be heard asking the sufferer concerning the places the place cows had been being slaughtered and beef offered.
The attackers additionally requested the sufferer to reveal what number of occasions he had eaten beef prior to now or if he has fed it to his kids and if the Quran allowed consuming beef, to which he replied within the unfavourable.
Samatipur SP Hridayakant mentioned an FIR has been lodged at Musarigharari police station in opposition to one Anurag Jha, a resident of Basudeopur within the district, for the offence beneath related sections of the IT Act and the IPC. “We have written to the officials of the social platform (read Instagram) to stop the circulation of the viral video aimed at spreading hatred in the society. The offenders have already been identified and raids were on to arrest them,” he advised the media.
The SP mentioned the video was made earlier than the killing of the sufferer recognized as Mohammad Khaleel Rizvi, a resident of Ruapuli village beneath Musarigharari police station on February 16. His physique was recovered from the financial institution of the Budhi Gandak on February 18.
“The accused video recorded the victim’s statement to cover up the murder and give the incident a communal colour. But the police foiled their plan and arrested the accused,” he mentioned.
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The station home officer (SHO) of Musarigharari police station Mohammad Aftab Alam mentioned that the sufferer was held captive whereas going to Samastipur from his native village on February 16. A lacking case was lodged on the assertion of his brother Mohammad Sitare.
Sitare claimed that his brother was related to the ruling Janata Dal-United. The police arrested the prime accused Bipul Kumar Jha, whose interrogation led to the restoration of the sufferer’s physique from Basudeopur village beneath Kalyanpur police station on February 18. His two associates — Rajesh Jha and Kishan Kumar — had been additionally arrested for being concerned within the kidnapping-cum-murder case.
During interrogation, the arrested individuals confessed to the crime and disclosed that they thrashed Khaleel for his reluctance to return the cash he took from them on the pretext of giving them jobs within the Railways.
They additional revealed that they thrashed the sufferer to exert strain to return the cash. But he succumbed to accidents later, which pressured them to dump the physique in a ditch close to the financial institution of Budhi Gandak at Basudeopur.
The chief of opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav attacked CM Nitish Kumar for his failure to include such incidents. “I want to know for how long people will be allowed to take the law into their hands,” he tweeted.
The police, nevertheless, claimed that each one the accused concerned within the crime could be dropped at e book on the earliest.